106. Catalogue of Poetical Stock-Cri- ticism on a Passage in Hamlet- ADDISON 116. Court of Judicature on the Petticoat ADDISON 117. On the Pleasure derived from the De- liverance of the Good from Danger 126. Characters of a Prude and Coquette- Story of the Gascon and the Widow 127. On Pride as affecting the Reason . 128. Letter from a Fortune-hunter-From 129. Dutch satirical Pictures-Letter from 135. Distinction between Ancient and Mo- dern Free-thinkers-The latter how ADDISON 138. Deference to the Opinion of the 139. Women more improveable than Men Discoveries by the use of his Ring 140. Letters on a charitable Provision for --Indecorums at Church-From an tants of Gotham THE TATLER. N° 85. TUESDAY, OCT. 25, 1709. From my own Apartment, October 24. My brother Tranquillus, who is a man of business, came to me this morning into my study, and after very many civil expressions in return for what good offices I hod done him, told me, "he desired to carry his wife, my sister, that very morning, to his own house." I readily told him, "I would wait upon him," without asking why he was so impatient to rob us of his good company. He went out of my chamber, and I thought seemed to have a little heaviness upon him, which gave me some disquiet. Soon after my sister came to me, with a very matron-like air, and most sedate satisfaction in her looks, which spoke her very much at ease; but the traces of her countenance seemed to discover that she had been lately in a passion, and that air of content to flow from a certain triumph upon some advantage obtained. She no sooner sat down by me, but I perceived she was one of those ladies who begin to be managers within the time of their being brides. Without letting her speak, which I saw she had a mighty inclination to do, I said, "Here |